Philosophy of Existence was first presented to the public as a
series of lectures invited by The German Academy of Frankfurt. In
preparing these lectures Jaspers, whom the Nazis had already
dismissed from his professorship at Heidelberg, knew that he was
speaking in Germany for the last time. Jaspers used the occasion to
offer an account of the cultural and intellectual situation from
which existentialism emerged as well as a summary of his own
philosophy. The book serves three purposes today: it brings the
many strands of the existential movement into focus; it provides an
overview of Jaspers's own philosophical position; and it
demonstrates by example that philosophy need not be irrational,
antiscientific, journalistic, or homiletic in order to be
existential and engage. In this short book Jaspers provides a
corrective for the popular view of existentialism as a pessimistic,
irrationalist philosophy. He maintains that it is, rather part of
mainstream of Western philosophy-the form that philosophy has taken
in our day.
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